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Communify acquires Fincentric from S&P Global

Wealthtech entrepreneur John Wise and PE firm Stellex Capital Management have acquired S&P Global’s Fincentric business with a view to providing digital experiences and financial data distribution to the wealth, broking and asset management industries.

15 August 2024

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2023: Bring everyone to the party for decarbonisation

Leading the SustainableFinance.Live's 2023 keynote session, Roxana Slavcheva, global lead for the built environment, World Resources Institute (WRI), dove right in to her session titled the ‘Role of AI in Decarbonising the Built Environment: An Urban Policy Perspective.’

10 October 2023

News/markets

More Wall Street giants back Versana syndicated loan platform

Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, US Bank and Wells Fargo are the latest financial services players to back Versana, joining a $40 million capital raise for the syndicated loan platform.

29 March 2023

News/markets

Lloyds PE arm invests in Etrading Software

Lloyds Banking Group's private equity arm, LDC, has made a "significant" investment in capital markets technology outfit Etrading Software.

12 December 2022

News/markets

Wall Street players launch syndicated loan platform

Some of the biggest banks on Wall Street are backing a new syndicated loan platform, called Versana, that is aiming to bring transparency, efficiency and velocity to the $5 trillion market.

17 March 2022

News/markets

Clearing firms invest in FIA Tech

A group of 10 clearing firms have committed $44 million to the Futures Industry Association's FIA Tech.

16 June 2021

News/crypto

Goldman Sachs invests in Coin Metrics

Goldman Sachs has led a $15 million Series B funding round for crpto financial intelligence player Coin Metrics.

05 May 2021

News/sustainable

Elastacloud runs hackathon to devise sustainable finance solutions

The first Sustainable Finance hackathon run by data science specialists Elastacloud in association with Finextra and Responsible Risk, took place on 16 and 17 January bringing together 38 professionals from the finance and technology sectors.

29 January 2021

News/people

Survey highlights data scientists shortage

The search for meaningful data insights has highlighted the shortage of specialised data science skills within the financial services industry.

09 December 2020

News/cloud

Driving decisions through cloud migration and data governance

In today’s environment, data is produced and consumed at a rapid pace. However, the way it is currently being stored, accessed, and processed is inefficient.

20 November 2020

News/sustainable

Sibos 2020: Defining sustainable finance and ESG, beyond climate action and the environment

As wildfires, hurricanes, social and economic unrest and the pandemic play out across the global stage, the final of day of Sibos 2020 focuses on banking for humanity, the impact of ESG and the triple bottom line as a driver for sustainable business.

08 October 2020

News/sustainable

EY: Sustainable goals in finance won’t be met with traditional behaviours

Financial services firms must evolve their mindsets to both manage risk effectively and to ensure that the industry meets sustainable goals, according to Sandy Trust, sustainable finance consulting lead at EY and deputy chair of the IFOA’s Sustainability Board.

23 September 2020

News/cloud

Why are FIs shifting grid computing to the cloud?

The financial services industry has long required compute-intensive calculations for risk management, regulatory compliance, product development, pricing, trading, clearing and surveillance. However, the volume and timeliness of these calculations have increased.

18 October 2019

News/Reference data

Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day two

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2019, in Panama City. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can accelerate digital transformation.

22 May 2019

News/Reference data

Irish fintech Ion set to buy Acuris for £1bn

Ion Group, a Dublin-based financial software and data company, is reportedly in talks to acquire Acuris, the London-based owner of financial news and data service Mergermarket, in a deal expected to be worth more than £1bn.

10 May 2019

News/regulation

UBS hit with £27.6 million penalty over massive transaction reporting fail

UBS has been fined £27,599,400 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failings relating to 135.8 million transaction reports over a ten-year period.

20 March 2019

News/Reference data

Fidelity invests in blockchain data startup Coin Metrics

Fidelity Investments is rounding out its digital assets strategy, participating in a $1.9 million funding round for crypto asset market and network data vendor Coin Metrics.

28 February 2019

News/Reference data

PKO Bank Polski to go live with blockchain project

Poland-based PKO Bank Polski has completed work on what it claims is the biggest client-facing blockchain implementation globally.

20 September 2018

News/Reference data

UK and EU banks plan early warning systems

Both UK and European banks are separately looking at projects to design an early warning system using market data to mitigate the threat of major misconduct or the beginning of the next financial crisis.

28 August 2018

News/Reference data

Cambridge Blockchain and IHS Markit join forces to bring DLT to KYC data collection

Cambridge Blockchain and IHS Markit have teamed up to bring distributed digital identity technology to the collection and management of know-your-customer information.

31 January 2018